Neural Therapy was created/discovered by two brothers (both doctors), Ferdinand and Walter Huneke, in 1925 in Germany. Neural Therapy is based on the theory that trauma can produce long-standing disturbances in the electrochemical function of tissues (called "interference fields") and that when an interference field is found, it can be easily treated by injecting it with a local anaesthetic, which relieves the symptoms.
Neural Therapy treats a wide variety of conditions by using injections into nerve sites, acupuncture points, scars, muscle trigger points and other tissues to relieve pain and dysfunction throughout the body. Neural therapy is said to be effective for a wide variety of conditions, particularly chronic pain.
Initially, Neural Therapy involved the injection of anesthetics into the appropriate nerve sites, acupuncture points, scars and other tissues to relieve pain elsewhere in the body. Similar non-injection techniques, which include electrical current, laser and other light devices are now used. It is believed that pathologicaly damaged tissue can act as a disfunctional stimulus to the automonic nervous system setting up an interference field. Neural therapy stops this field and thereby eliminates the disturbance to the body it causes. Once this is done, the organs, glands and body tissue all function better thereby eliminating many chronic diseases which, according to German literature, can include:
- Headaches
- Migraines
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Fatigue
- Optic Neuritis
- Allergies such as Hay Fever
- Asthma
- Tonsilitis
- Liver Disease
- Menstrual Pain and Irregularity
- Gallbladder disease
- Eczema
- Lupus
- Arthritis including Rheumatoid Arthritis
